Film Type 35mm
Posted on 08/21/2011 4:45:30 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
As digital photography grows, an analogue company, Lomography, is growing interest in its range of striking and unusual cameras.
When a pair of Austrian students found an old Russian camera, the Lomo Kompakt Automat, in the early 1990s, they were surprised and delighted by the unpredictable images it produced.
The saturated colours and slightly blurry photos had a distinctive look. The pair travelled to Saint Petersberg in Russia to sign a worldwide distribution deal with the manufacturer.
The Lomography movement grew quickly, with users all over the world returning to analogue ways just as digital photography was growing in popularity. They followed the '10 Golden Rules' established by the company's founders, including 'try a shot from the hip' and 'don't think'.
Lomography fans make digital copies of their photos, which they upload to the internet and share - the website at the time of writing says that more than 7,000 photos have been uploaded in the last hour - but the process is determinedly analogue. Photographers seek out expired film or use slide film to exaggerate the effects produced by the camera.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I still love film and vinyl
Good cos I am retarded when it comes to digital and I still use film.
I have an Olympus point and shoot that is about 20 years old and works great even though I have taken it to the beach for years.
In other words, it was bad color photography. Got it.
Actually, that contrasty, saturated look can easily be created with various kinds of filters in Photoshop.
I still have my Mamiya DTL1000 and I also shoot with a digital SLR. I want to also try medium format, so I am looking for a good used Mamiya 645 or RZ67.
I bought a LOMO around 1975 tho it was a twin lens reflex instead of the later LOMOs.
It was a good picture taker tho not in the same class as a Rolleiflex or even a Yashica Mat.
I still remember the translation of the name of the company. “Leningrad Optical Mechanical Works Amalgamated”
Lomo cameras were crappy even by Soviet standards.
lol
I have no clue what you are saying........
IMHO digital filters can not reproduce the effects of film.
I still love film and vinyl
LOL sorry ,that’s sounds , ah , kinky
I miss working in a darkroom. It has been probably 2002 or so since I last used a film camera. These days I use a T2i since it does HD video (primarily a TV person years ago) and good 18 MP images.
I had 20 & 50Ds and 3/4 of the functions I really never used that much.
Most of what I did was virtual tour, ebay sales, events, and the odd model.
A few of the newer albums here are off the T2i.
Some of the HD video lives here:
http://footage.shutterstock.com/g/tysonneil
The ones in question would be the old style campground wide shot and some concrete pouring taken at my neighbors and here when we got the driveway redone.
As fast as equipment becomes obsolete I couldn’t see plunking down for a 60D.
Richard Avedon was my idea of the ultimate professional photographer. I'm not sure but I don't think he ever used a digital camera for his work. Always a Hasselblad or a view camera.
Its a personal preference.
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that)
At least to my eye.
Looks like some vignetting, some oversaturation of colors, and something going on with the dynamic range so more of the image falls off into black.
I could have adjusted it but I just used a lomo effect action I grabbed off the net for a quicky demonstration of the effect.
You’ll need photoshop. But when I need something like that I just google “Photoshop + actions”.
These days I mostly just make my own actions for photoshop.
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